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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Radar Mechanic 1941-5
« on: Friday 06 June 25 20:23 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for your patience.

Happy to put this one to rest.

It has been a fascinating foray into the rapid development of radar during WW2. Sounds like it could have been a logistical nightmare, keeping up with new technology, expansion of stations and implications for maintenance & repair and oversight.


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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Radar Mechanic 1941-5
« on: Friday 06 June 25 19:34 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for this, you have helped me confirm the correct rabbit hole.

Most sources point to 1 Balloon Centre as being purely barrage balloons but I have my man there from 16 May 1941 until he goes to Kilkeel in February 1942.

As you point out he passed his trade exam in December 1941 so the dates point to him having qualified at the Balloon Centre.

I don't have any dates to differentiate between Skegness & Kidbrooke.

He left Cardton in April 1941, briefly passed through Skegness and by May 1941 he was at the Balloon centre where he qualified in December and was posted to Kilkeel February 1942.

Thanks again for all your help. I was thrown off track by the Balloon Centre but you have come up with a plausible explanation.


Added

After a little more digging,

"A very important unit based at Kidbrooke was No 2 Installation Unit. From 1939, this was responsible for constructing, maintaining and repairing all of the Chain Home radar station masts around the UK coasts throughout WW-2"

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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Radar Mechanic 1941-5
« on: Friday 06 June 25 17:50 BST (UK)  »
Thanks again.

One more question if I may. I'll try to make it the last one.

He qualified as a radar mechanic in Dec 1941 when he was promoted to AC1. Was this likely if he was at either Skegness or No 1 Balloon Centre leading up to this date.  If read it correctly Skegness was basic training and Kidbrook was more associated with barrage balloons.

Once again, I appreciate all your help

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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Radar Mechanic 1941-5
« on: Friday 06 June 25 17:16 BST (UK)  »
Thank you so much for us. I was heading down the wrong rabbit hole.

Initially confused as to why NI was not home but now I see what you have written. Except I read Kilkeel as being HH and Greystone and White Waltham as being F.

I will follow these up. Thank you again.

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Armed Forces / Re: RAF Radar Mechanic 1941-5
« on: Friday 06 June 25 15:39 BST (UK)  »
You have all been so helpful.
I wonder if I could ask for some more information regarding the excerpt I posted earlier.

Specifically the early training before he went to Kilkeel. I have worked out some of it, F, H etc. I am hoping that H means normal transfer and F means finished training.

The references to 2Wq 11 RC and 1 BC have got me a little flummoxed. There is no reference to location associated with these abbreviations.

The period in question is May 1941 to Feb 1942

He got to Cardton in April, and got to this 2Wq reference in May 1941 before going to Kilkeel in Feb 1942

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Lanarkshire / Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1857-1962
« on: Friday 06 June 25 11:42 BST (UK)  »
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=891866.msg7659100#msg7659100

I am linking to a post I started in the Common Room ( at least I hope I am).

It is a question specifically about Glasgow Electoral rolls so perhaps might gain some extra interest here

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The Common Room / Re: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1857-1962
« on: Thursday 05 June 25 21:58 BST (UK)  »
Thank you for this. I know the development was started around 1953. I know they had moved by 1955.

I will follow up.

It would have been nice to identify the move through the electoral roll, it was just proving extremely frustrating and i wondered if there were any tricks to searching the electoral roll that I was missing.

The new development was in the Pollock constituency.
 

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The Common Room / Re: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1857-1962
« on: Thursday 05 June 25 18:19 BST (UK)  »
To be clear, I have the addresses, I just want to track them forward three years. Does anyone know how to do this?

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The Common Room / Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Electoral Registers, 1857-1962
« on: Thursday 05 June 25 16:20 BST (UK)  »
I wonder if someone can help me out here. I have just wasted over an hour searching in vain. Surely I am missing something.

I have practically all the information I need. I would just like to be diligent and pinpoint exactly when this family moved home.

I have them in 1952 at one address and 1962 at their new address. Both addresses are within this group of records.

I believe with a degree of certainty that they moved between 1953 and 1955 but I would like to prove it.

I don't even know how I found these two entries. It seems impossible to search these records even though I know constituencies, wards, addresses etc. Any search I do with just the name and the odd keyword comes up with 100's if not 1000's of results.

I know these records are not indexed. Is that what is causing the difficulty and if so is there any way round it. Obviously being and electoral register dates of birth are of limited help as the family are all of voting age.

Can anyone help before I lose the plot altogether.


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